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Born January 15, 1895 • Helsinki • Finland
Died November 11, 1973 (aged 78) • Helsinki • Finland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Bruce Merrifield
American biochemist and educator
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Kary B. Mullis
Kary Mullis
American chemist
David Baker
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist
Lindahl, Tomas
Tomas Lindahl
Swedish biochemist
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar
Turkish-American biochemist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Modrich, Paul
Paul Modrich
American biochemist
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Butenandt, Adolf
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist